30% of Spanish Google searches for “Jew” are anti-Semitic
Nearly a third of all results in Google searches for ‘Jew’ in Spanish are anti-Semitic websites, report finds.
Some 30 percent of the page results returned in a Google search for the word Jew, or Judio, on Spanish-language websites contain anti-Semitic content.
This is one of the conclusions of a report on web results for 2016 by the Web Observatory, or Observatorio Web, a Buenos Aires-based watchdog group monitoring online hatred.
Another trend is that anti-Semitic videos on YouTube, the leading social network video platform, had a growing number of likes throughout last year. In January they received 3 likes for every 1 dislike, but by the end of the year the figure changed to 4-1, revealing an increased proportion of approbation, according the report released on Friday.
According to the Web Observatory, some 484 Spanish-language videos denying the Holocaust have received nearly 1.7 million views collectively during 2016 alone.
“There is a worrying positive viewing of anti-Semitic content and that is a growing trend. The most viewed are about Holocaust denial,” Obervatorio Web Director Ariel Siedler told JTA.Some of the videos are tagged with the word “holocuento,” a term used to lampoon the Holocaust or suggest it did not happen, similarly to “holohoax” in English or “shoananas” in French.
Argentina has had an anti-discrimination law on the books since 1988. “Although the current legislation serves in cases of discrimination, an update should be considered to include the Internet and social networks,” added Siedler.
The main trends in the microblogging tool Twitter are the criticism of the Jews linked to actions by Israel and the trivialization of the Holocaust.
